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De or het smaak?

← Dutch words

de smaak

taste, sense of taste

/smaːk/

Forms

Singular
de smaak
Plural
de smaken
Diminutive
het smaakje

Why de?

  • No reliable spelling rule decides this one, so de smaak is learned together with the word.
  • Every plural takes de, so it is de smaken whatever the singular takes.
  • Every diminutive takes het: het smaakje.

The rules for de and het, with the exceptions

Meaning in English

  1. taste, sense of taste
  2. taste, decorum

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